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title: The streams foamed and bubbled between their banks, dashing sparklin… — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-Englis… · tree and pragmatics
description: The streams foamed and bubbled between their banks, dashing sparkling on the shores where they shelved downwards. Who acts: streams, Twas. A sentence of «Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 7, with its depende
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# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 7, sentence 67

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The streams foamed and bubbled between their banks, dashing sparkling on the shores where they shelved downwards.

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**Who acts:** streams, Twas · **What happens:** foam, bubble, dash, sparkle, shelve · **To what, where:** banks, shores

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This is a sentence of «Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (streams, Twas), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg66084:7:67
# text = The streams foamed and bubbled between their banks, dashing sparkling on the shores where they shelved downwards.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	streams	stream	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	foamed	foam	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	bubbled	bubble	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
6	between	between	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	banks	bank	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	dashing	dash	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
11	sparkling	sparkle	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	xcomp	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	shores	shore	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
15	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	17	advmod	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	shelved	shelve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
18	downwards	downwards	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **foam** | past | the streams |  |  |  |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **bubble** | past | the streams *not said here* |  |  | Twas's banks |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme between bank=Location |
| 3 | **dash** | gerund | the streams *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **sparkle** | gerund | the streams *not said here* |  |  | the shores |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on shore=Location |
| 5 | **shelve** | past | Twas *= twa* |  |  |  |  | downwards *property* | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose» by Jessie L. Weston, Project Gutenberg book 66084 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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